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PC take overs!!!!!!

Mods move this to cafe if you want, I just put it here since most people read here first.

Twice now in three months I have had my PC hi-jacked by a scammer that does a complete take over of all the programs!
It then gives you a popup that says "WARNING You computer has been corrupted and the only way that you can clean it up is by sending us money! Now ain't that just Dandy!!!! Send them money to clean up a program that they put on your PC! Something should be done about these Bastages!!!! Thank heaven I have a self taught friend that knows how to hack in on the hackers and clean this junk up for me!

Thanks for letting me vent!

The Skunk Has Spoken!

I swear skunk was squeezin my buttocks !
Skunkman's nose nailed this one.
Never squat with yer spurs on.
Quote Originally Posted by CombatTargeteer
"You gotta watch the Skunkman."
I don't want to ruin Skunk's rep, but I have to report that he is a very hospitable and generous guy, besides being a super Husker fan.

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

That might be true, but that won't stop you from being vulnerable to malware. You still need to be vigilant about what you click yes on, regardless of what OS you're running.

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

Mac. Ha.

The reason Macs don't run into malware issues isn't because they are better - it's because no one uses them. Why would someone bother writing malicious code that will only affect about 6-7% of computers?

The reason Macs don't run into malware issues isn't because they are better - it's because no one uses them. Why would someone bother writing malicious code that will only affect about 6-7% of computers?

I will say this... Apple fanboys are fiercely loyal.

(I run my vast empire on Apple products. For us they are better.)

There are malware written for OS X but they never get very far because security is baked into the OS a lot better than Windows. I am not saying that it can't be done but you have to do a lot of stupid stuff to get your Mac infected. There was a new malware discovered last month with in a week Apple had a patch that defeated it...even though it was really really hard to get infected by it.

OS X is moving in the direction of iOS which means that probably in the next version each program will be running in its own sandbox (really from a security stand point they are kind of now doing that).